Carter Burwell Quotes
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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The great love of my life is music.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
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Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.
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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing.
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I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
